Battle him of the Republic.
Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth
is marching
on.
I have seen him in the
watchfires of a hundred
circling camps.
They have built in him an altar
in the evening
do's and amps.
I can read his righteous
sentence by the dim and flaring
lamps.
His day is marching
on.
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
His day
is marching
on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet
that shall never sound retreat.
He is sifting out
the hearts of men before his
judgment seat. Oh, be swift
my soul to answer him.
Be jubilant my feet.
Our God is
marching on.
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
Our God
is marching
on.
In the beauty of the
lilies Christ was born across
the sea with the glory
in his bosom that transfigures
you and me.
As he died to make men holy
let us die to make men free
while God is
marching on.
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
While God is
marching on.
Good seeing this evening, let's
open up in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father
thank you for this day and thank you so much
for our church, that we are in
a church that's in the spiritual battle. I pray that
you'd help us to continue to be faithful
in the fight and just give us strength. Lord
bless the service. We love you. In Jesus' name
we pray. Amen.
Alright, for our second song, we'll go to 150
My faith has found
a resting place.
150
My faith has found a resting
place.
Song
150
My faith has found a resting place.
Song
150
My faith has found a resting
place.
Not in
device nor
creed.
I trust the ever
living one.
His wounds for me
shall plead.
I need no
other argument.
I need no
other plea.
It is
enough that Jesus
died and that
he died for
me. Enough
for me that
Jesus saves.
This ends my fear
and doubt.
So
thy come to him.
He'll never cast
me out.
I need no
other argument.
I need no
other plea.
It
is enough that
Jesus died and
that he died for
me.
My heart is leaning
on the word,
the written word
of God.
Salvation
by my Savior's
name. Salvation
through his blood.
I need
no other
argument. I
need no other
plea.
It is enough
that Jesus died
and that he
died for me.
My great
physician heals
the sick. The
lost he came to
save. For
me his precious
blood he shed. For
me his life
he gave.
I need no
other argument.
I need no
other plea.
It is
enough that Jesus
died and that
he died for
me.
I need no
other
argument.
I need
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I need
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So if you
work for ten dollars,
getting ten dollars would be just.
Getting nine dollars
would be being ripped off.
Getting eleven dollars would be gracious.
So
justice, if you understand
what it is in its essence,
is exact.
It's right. So there's not
really any variance
with it. And what you have to understand about
the law of God is it's
just. The law of God
is exactly what you deserve.
So if you poke out a guy's eye,
what does the law say you get?
Your eye poked out. Because
it's an equitable recompense
for your transgression.
So whatever sin you commit,
if you get the exact punishment that the law
prescribes, then that would be
just. According to the Bible, God
is just. So God always wants
to recompense people according to what they deserve.
Now the only exception to that
would be when you get the grace of God.
So the grace of God
goes beyond justice. And you know what?
Praise God that we don't all get what we
deserve.
I mean, if I got what I deserved, I would go to hell.
Because the Bible says for the wages of sin is
death. But I don't have to
go to hell because I get God's grace.
But here's the thing. In order
to even have grace,
you have to have justice too.
Because without justice, then
grace is meaningless. If I don't deserve
hell, then why do I need God's grace?
I don't. I need God's grace
because I do deserve hell.
If I owe ten dollars
and someone says, you know what?
You only have to give me nine.
Now that's gracious. Whereas if
someone just says give me nine dollars and I don't owe them
anything, that's not gracious.
Because it's like, what do you mean?
I don't owe you any money.
So the only way for something to even be gracious
is for there to be a just recompense,
for there to be an equitable recompense
onto your transgression. That's why God
gives us the law. He helps us understand
why these things exist.
In a society, you must have
equitable recompenses
for the crimes of your area. Otherwise,
you're going to have evil
taking over your society
and taking over your nation.
In our nation, we don't have equitable punishments
for crimes. So therefore,
you have a lot of evil going unpunished
and a lot of bad things happening.
When you let murder get off the hook,
you don't punish murder with
the death penalty, then you end up having
more murder than you should in a society.
When you don't punish rape with
the death penalty, you have more rape in a society
than you should. And so
of course, in a human society,
you have to have equitable laws.
It's frustrating to me how many Christians I talk to
and they get all squeamish
about the laws in the Old Testament. They're like,
well I just think that we would all
deserve death, so we can't have the death penalty for anybody.
And I'm thinking like,
well first of all,
Romans 6.23 is not talking about civil punishment.
It is not saying having a
bad thought, you're worthy of dying.
Physically. It's talking about how we
all deserve hell for our punishment. That's why it's important to understand
the word death there really means hell.
It's not talking about capital punishment.
Whereas in the Old Testament, yeah, having
a bad thought was still a sin, but you know what?
There was no physical punishment.
There was no thought police.
There was no censorship, okay, in the Old Testament.
You know, you could have bad thoughts all day long
and, you know, you'd suffer consequences
of that, but it wouldn't be from a human
government perspective.
And if you really took this ideology
to its fullest extent, you're basically
just believing in anarchy.
Why would anybody want anarchy?
And then they're like, well I don't believe in anarchy.
And then it's like, okay, well then what laws are we gonna
pick for our society?
And it's like,
well, I don't know. It's like,
how about the ones that God gave us?
You know, how is this not common sense?
It was like, hey, God already gave us
human laws of how
society should govern itself.
Why don't we just go based on his laws?
And I mean, that's what America did do.
At the beginning of its foundation, it basically
said, hey, we can't write better laws than God did.
Let's just take his laws and put them in our laws.
And you know what? Our society was the best
when we were doing that.
And as we continually get
our own laws and deviate
from God's word, the more and more
corrupt our society becomes
and the more evil that we see
rampant in our society.
And so we have to have leaders that are
just. Why is it also
that we have a lot of problems in our
society? It's because
the district attorney,
it's because the governor,
it's because our state legislatures,
it's because
the federal attorneys,
the attorney general of the
United States, it's because all these
individuals are not delivering
just rulings.
They're not giving equitable
recompenses to the criminals in our
society. And so therefore,
evil is just permeating
our society. And you know what? The reason
why our society is so broken
is because we don't elect people
or put people in positions of authority
based on these factors
that the Bible laid out.
What was the thing that said in
2 Samuel?
Trust and ruling in the fear of God.
Look at Exodus 18 verse 19.
And place such over them to be rulers of
thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers
of tens. And let them judge the people
at all seasons.
So we see a justice system
in which there's a multiplicity of judges.
Now this is very similar
to how God wanted them
to civilly rule over themselves in the land
where they had a lot of judges.
You had the whole book of judges
and then even in America, society
today, our system
is based on these
principles. What is the problem?
And this is what frustrates me.
A lot of people get mad at our system.
Our system is not
the problem. What's the problem
is the men in that system.
Because
we don't have men that what?
Fear God.
We don't have men of truth. And we don't have
men that hate covetousness.
And all of those things
is what ruins our entire system.
Because the judges and the justices
of our land take bribes
and they run for office
and they take all this money in
and all this, you know,
bribery comes through their
channels and that basically
influences their decisions. They're not making
good decisions based on who's right and who's wrong.
They're not making decisions on
hating, coveting. You know, when someone offers them
a bribe, instead of arresting them
and throwing them in jail for committing
a crime of offering a bribe to a judge,
they take the bribe.
They take the money.
And you say, no, they're not taking bribes.
Yes, they are. Because they'll walk
up and they'll say, hey, you know, our
company did some weird things this year
but we're going to make a big donation
to your campaign.
So, look the other way. They're just like,
okay, no problem.
And then what happens? They get a big
donation. Whereas, you know,
people are willing to pay to not
have a
penalty given to them. I think I saw
someone, someone shared this on Facebook.
It was something about like a,
I think it was a French company
or something like that. They were giving,
they were giving money to like terrorists,
ISIS terrorists.
And they got caught. And
I think when I read the article,
they had given ten million dollars
to like fund
ISIS terrorist groups or something like
that through a front of their business
that they had in one of the Middle
Eastern countries. Well,
they end up getting caught and they got
litigated and this was their punishment.
They have to pay seven hundred million dollars.
And I was thinking like,
you know, the
penalty was they were funding
murder and extortion
and rape and then their punishment
is just to give money.
Is to just pay money. And I'm like, how
is that an equitable judgment?
It's like they're basically like, you know,
and then of course, you know, the American government's
never been involved in hurting, torturing or
killing anybody. So I'm like,
it's just, they were like, hey, we don't like
you giving money to this bully. We're a bigger
bully. Give us more money.
And it's like they just took a bigger price.
I mean, what kind of judge says, hey,
you're involved in rape, murder
and espionage.
How much money are you willing to pay for me to not
judge you?
Oh, seven hundred million? Sure.
I guess you won't have to go to jail
if you give me seven hundred million
dollars. And that's exactly
how our system works today. You know, you pay
money, you know, you get a DUI.
If you just pay ten thousand dollars, it
goes away.
Whereas a poor person that commits a DUI,
they have to go to jail. They have to get a criminal
record. How is that just an equitable
system where the poor person
actually gets punished, but then
the person that has money, they
can essentially buy their way out
of it. And look, that's the that's how
it is on almost every criminal offense.
If you get it, if you get charged
or something and you can just pay your way out of it,
they'll just let you pay your way out of it.
And you just keep paying and paying and paying.
And basically when you look at people that finally
go to jail, it's they they ran out
of money because they kept bailing, they kept
getting people to bail them out or give them money or do whatever.
And then finally they've sucked
all the money out of these people and then
they just throw them in jail. But you know what, they
still make money on those people
because in the prison industrial complex,
you know what, someone
built that prison.
Someone is
providing the meals
for that institution. Someone
is providing for all the services, for the beds,
for the sheets, you know.
I mean Jeffrey Epstein didn't hang himself,
okay. Those sheets
had to get in there somewhere, right? I mean
the cameras, I mean these
prisons have a lot of technology.
They have someone selling them these products.
So you don't think anybody's
making money on that? You don't think anybody
has any kind of desire for
there to be more criminals
in the justice system?
I mean think about it. What if you specialize,
your company makes prison food.
How is your bottom line going to look
next year if you say, you know what, we're going to put
less people in prison. You're going to go out of
business. So you say, you know,
we need some more people to go to prison. You know,
I'm going to keep making this crappy food for them.
You know, I'm going to keep making these, you know. And then
of course, not only is
the prison system
got all of that shenanigans going on,
you can literally invest in the prison system.
They literally have ways where you can buy money.
You can like invest into
the prison industrial complex.
And I'll kid you not, many judges
and justices in our country
invest in
prisons. They're putting
money into companies that are
basically funded by prisons.
Talk about the
wolf guarding the hen house here.
I mean how does that, I mean he sends
someone to prison and his bank account just
went up a few bucks.
So either you paid him and his bank account
went up or he sends you to prison
and his bank account goes up. But let me tell you something,
the house always wins.
And you know what, that is a crooked, that is a
crooked situation. But it's not so much
that the system is broken of having a judge
and having him rule. It's the
fact that this guy doesn't hate covetousness.
It's that this guy's on the take. It's that this
guy's not a man of truth. It's that this guy doesn't
fear God at all.
I mean to just take bribe
after bribe after bribe
and make incorrect judgment after
incorrect judgment means you just don't
fear God.
And you know what is a problem in America
is people just don't fear God
at all. There is a
zero fear of God it seems like in our country.
Oh I don't go to church. Why?
Because I don't fear God. You know why I lie?
Because I don't fear God. You know why
I don't do anything for God? It's because you just
don't fear God. But you know what
that is a foolish attitude because
God is one to fear. And God will
punish you and God will destroy your life.
I mean show me all these people that are super
happy not serving God.
Why do they all look
so miserable? You know and of course the
leftist seems like the most miserable of all the people
on the planet. Isn't it funny they seem
to get all the things that they want and say
they're still so miserable. You know it's like
you know Trump gets off Twitter
and it's like they're madder. They're
more upset. You know and then they block
10 more people and then they're still upset.
And they're like well now they have their own platform
I'm still upset. You know they're still breathing air.
They're just even more upset
every single day. Nothing
can appease these people.
Why? Because there's no true satisfaction
outside of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And God's word. Go back
to 2 Samuel chapter
23. We need leaders
that are just and they're going to fear God
and you know what we need that in every area.
You know our soul winning leaders need to be men
that hate covetousness
and fear God.
Evangelists and deacons of our church need to be
people that hate covetousness
and they're men of truth and
they love God. And you know what I've seen some
bad evangelists out there and
you know what they always have a love of money.
There's always something shady about the money.
You know there's something weird about
the money. And you know what it's not
even coincidence that the shadiest guy
of the Bible Judas Iscariot
also was a thief and took the money out of
the bag. So you know what how people
treat money is a real good indication
of what kind of a person they are.
Why the love of money is the root of all evil.
You know and people
that love money are just going to be super
wicked people. I mean who is the most wicked
people on the planet. Jacob
Jews. Right. Why because they
love money so much. You know and of
course that is that is the where
you trace all evil. It just
all comes from this just innate
desire to just have so much
money. But you know what God
is not a god of money. We worship
God. We don't worship money here.
Oh well where's your fancy building.
We don't worship money here.
Oh well you know
where's all your fancy car. You know
I got I got made fun of by the
protesters one day. They were like
oh how come every other preacher drives a
really nice car Pastor Shelley.
I'm like because they love money. I don't know.
What do you want me to say.
I was like thinking like all the things
to criticize me like why
is that the one you pick. You know
like I would think like you wouldn't be mad.
I was like I know that if I had a nice
car though they would be mad at me for that too.
It's like you can't win with these people can
you. It's like John the Baptist. This guy
is beside himself and Jesus. You know
he came eating and drinking. It's like you can't
please these people. I could have the nicest
car in the parking lot and they'd be mad at me.
I could have the worst car in the parking lot and these people would
matter because they're just mad at everything.
But you know what a good leader is one
who he's not going
to let money influences decisions.
You know if he had to exercise church
discipline he's not going to wonder
how much they tithe. He's just going to do
it. You know when he when he decides
how he's going to treat a person in church
he doesn't worry about how much money they
have or not. He's just going to do what's
right. And so I always
sometimes when I'm thinking about how
I'm going to handle a person or a situation
I try to envision them as the
richest person in my church and the poorest
person in my church. And sometimes I
think like there's been times where I've thought
like man I just really don't like this person
or I need to be really I need to be really stern with
this person. And I'm like
I'm not being mad at them because they're poor
are they. And I'm like no they're rich
I'd want them out too. I was like okay
you know that's that's my test of like
okay am I going to treat
this person properly. Because you know I wouldn't
want to sit here and think like you know what I
would be mean to this person if
they are poor but if they are rich I'd be nice to
them. You know that makes you a hypocrite that makes
you a respecter of persons.
Now you've got to think about
how would I treat this person regardless
of what money they have. Would I make the same
kind of decision about them. And you know that's the
best way to make judgments.
Look at verse number four.
And he shall be as the light
of the morning when the sun
rises even a morning without clouds
as the tender grass springeth out of the earth
by clear shining after rain.
Although my house be not so with God yet
he hath made me an everlasting covenant ordered
in all things and sure for this is all
my salvation and all my desire
although he make it not
to grow. I think what
David is trying to say in verses four and
five is that he's realizing it's not
really about him.
Because ultimately
if we're going to have a just ruler
fearing God and the world
who's going to be the real fulfillment of that.
It's the Lord Jesus Christ not David. Because look
what he said in verse five. Although my house be
not so with God. So he's basically saying like
yeah I understand
that's who you want to be the leader. I'm not
really that guy though. Okay
yet he hath made me an everlasting covenant.
So he's like even though I'm not perfect
somehow he made me an everlasting covenant.
You know it kind of makes me think of salvation.
Even though I'm not perfect God gave me an everlasting
covenant when I believed in Jesus Christ
I was saved forever. Now
the covenant for David is a little bit different in the
sense that the covenant specifically that
his seed is going to always
rule Israel.
And that fulfillment is going to come
with the Lord Jesus Christ and how the
Lord Jesus Christ is going to rule forever.
And he's saying this
is going to happen. He
said an everlasting covenant, order
all things and sure meaning it's definitely
going to happen. This is all my salvation
and all my desire. Although he make it not to
grow. And I think he's just kind of referencing
how in his it's not
really a physical fulfillment
here that we're talking about so much. It's a spiritual
fulfillment coming with Christ.
Verse 6, but the
sons of Belial shall be
all of them as thorns thrust away because they
cannot be taken with hands. So he's contrasting
his seed with the seed of
the devil and saying like we're going to have this
everlasting covenant and we're going to
last forever but the sons
of Belial they're going to be destroyed
in everlasting fire. Now
thorns
is always a picture of something
that's just rejected.
It's worthless. There's
nothing of value. Thorns can
represent a lot of different things in the Bible.
In the very
beginning of the Bible we have
Adam and Eve and they sin
and then God curses the ground
and he talks about how the ground is going to
bring forth a
curse. There's a curse in the ground and it's going to bring
forth thorns and thistles and things like
that. He's going to actually have to till the ground and
actually have to work. And that's kind of just a picture
of the consequence of your sin. And there's
nothing redeemable about sin itself.
Sin itself is just a rejected
thing. There's nothing beneficial about
that. You know the Bible talks about in Luke
chapter number 8 how
the sower sows the word
and he's really sowing it into the
hearts of men but inside the
hearts of some men are thorns
and those thorns choke
the word lest they become fruitful.
And of course that thorn is not beneficial
and he's talking about the cares of this life.
So thorns can be a lot of different things.
The Bible even likens the word
of God unto a thorn.
Some people will
take this passage and they'll say
thorns always are reprobates.
That is a bad doctrine.
Why? Well I can tell you
that a thorn is the Bible
because the Bible talks about in the book of Proverbs
how as a thorn goes
in the hand of a drunkard so is a parable in the mouth
of fools. Meaning that
the word of God in a
parable form was like a thorn
to a drunkard. But that doesn't mean that there's
anything wrong with the Bible.
So you can't run with analogies
and just act like every
single symbol is
always universal throughout the Bible.
Sometimes goats in the Bible
is a really bad thing. But also sometimes
goats picture the Lord Jesus Christ.
So you know a goat is not a symbol
that always means one thing.
A thorn is not always a symbol that means
one thing. What is the context of this passage
though? The thorn is representative of a reprobate.
And of course that's a really good analogy
because you don't want to even
touch a thorn.
Look what it says in verse number 7
But the man that shall touch them must be fenced
with iron and the staff of a spear
and they shall be utterly
burned with fire in the same place.
You don't want to get AIDS or monkey pox
from this thing. You want to be fenced
with iron. You want to have
some careful special gloves on
or you want to make sure you're handling this
with a lot of care because you don't want to
get pricked. And look
that's the only thing that can happen from
reprobates is you get pricked.
There's no redeeming them. That's why you
want to leave them alone or
gather them very carefully and destroy them.
They're made to be taken and destroyed
as the Bible says in 2nd Peter.
You know some people are
just not redeemable anymore.
You know a serial rapist is not like
let's give them a third chance.
You know it's like what kind of insanity
do these people have that live in our society
that will literally let someone
rape and then they'll get
caught and go to jail and they'll come out and they'll rape again
and they'll get caught and go to jail and it's like
maybe the third time's the charm. It's like no
you're just refusing to
see the truth for what it is.
You know we should never have a single person
rape more than once after getting caught.
They should get caught and
destroyed and then they never repeat
offend. Murderers should never
repeat offend. Child molesters should never repeat
offend. And we should have less child molesters
because we destroy people before they even
get to that point anyways.
But of course the society we live in today
exonerates child
molesters and allows them to
run rampant in California
and run rampant in other parts
of the world and often it's because
the judge is that himself.
We have in
verse number 8 the Bible is now going to kind of
make a little bit of a change here.
It talks about the importance
of a just
ruler and leader and talks about
the sure house. But then it brings up these mighty men.
It says in verse 8,
these be the names of the mighty men whom David
had, the Tacmonite that sat in the seat
chief among the captains.
The same was a dino,
the Esnite. He lifted up his spear against
800 whom he slew at one time.
Now if you compare that with 1 Chronicles
there's a parallel list in the Bible.
Technically his name's like
Jashobeam and
in another place he's
described as being Jashobeam and he
says that he killed 300.
So it's a different number.
I don't know why it's a different number
but I believe both are true.
So either A,
the 300 is encapsulated in
this 800 so like maybe
he killed 300 in one hour
and then the whole day's total was 800.
Or it was just two different
events that are being brought up
as just a memorial to how awesome
this guy was.
How many battles did David have?
I mean if you really think about it,
they were battling for years and years
and years and years and battles
if it's taken about one day, I mean
they could have potentially had a couple
hundred battles a year.
So there could have been two to
three thousand battles.
If this is the
greatest warrior to
ever live, don't you think
there was multiple days where he had a
total? I mean it's pretty reasonable
to think that
this guy might have had a couple pretty
special battles. And so it's just
in one place it's bringing up the 300
and another place it's bringing up the 800.
But you know, it's not
even that different than if you think like
what if we went to a soul winning marathon and you
just went to the most receptive place
and you had the greatest soul winner
and you had the best day he's ever had.
You know someone could be like
man at one door he got five people saved.
And then another person's like
he had ten people saved for the day.
Well both are true.
It's just you're kind of highlighting
different events even though
it was even on the same day.
So you know we don't know exactly
what's being mentioned. It's not an error
though. You know I'm not going to get
sit up here and say like oh this is an error.
You know some Bibles will try to fix
all of these different things in the scripture.
They'll change all the numbers and say
they match and they try to fix things.
But you know by fixing things you know what you're saying
the Hebrew's wrong.
And when you say the Hebrew's wrong
then what you're saying is that God didn't preserve his word.
And when you say God didn't preserve his word
then you just open the door to just say
we can just write whatever we want
for the Bible. You know and it's like
where does the insanity stop? It doesn't.
I mean I talked to a modern Bible
translator. Someone who worked
on one of the modern Bibles
the Holman Christian Standard Bible.
I talked to him about Hebrew and
he spoke Hebrew very well.
But I said hey we dug up some manuscript
and it was older than all the other Hebrew
and it just took huge sections of the
Bible out. Would you be willing to change the Bible?
And he said yes.
And I was just like at what
point does that insanity stop?
I mean that's a pretty dangerous slippery
slope to sit here and then
he like brought up a passage to me that he was
already skeptical of. Like it sounded
like if someone just manufactured some
crappy piece of paper and just
said this needs to be changed
he'd be like oh yeah I was thinking that anyways.
You know
I never read the Bible and I'm like
you know I don't think that part should be there.
That's a weird thought.
And that's not a thought coming from the Lord Jesus Christ
or from the Holy Spirit.
But you know
I don't have a problem with this passage.
Obviously this guy was amazing.
Here's the thing
also though that I want to say
is I personally
believe when you study these physical
battles that these guys
were incapable
of completing these feats physically.
That these were supernatural
spiritually
guided events. And why I say
that is for a few reasons. Number one
the feats that they accomplished are not
humanly possible in my estimation.
But secondly because the
whole book is supposed to be spiritual anyways.
Because here's the thing
that you don't understand.
To take a spear
and go like this as hard as you
possibly can enough to literally pierce
a human body. I mean we're not just
talking about any body. We're talking about the
strongest men on the planet.
Possibly even through armor.
Let's assume you never even missed a single
time. This guy had to do it
800 times
in one day.
It's like you watch boxers and they're tired
after 30 seconds of fighting.
And they're like professionally trained
boxers. And they're just hitting.
They're not taking a spear and
ending another grown man's life with a
single jab or whatever. And of
course some people don't realize this because
they only watch movies.
You could hit a guy and he doesn't just instantly
die or something.
In reality sometimes people
get hit and they're still fighting.
You know you got to hit them again. You got to hit them again.
You miss. I find
that sometimes
battle scenes are too quick it seems like in
movies and sometimes they're too slow.
Sometimes you have the weird movie where they get shot
15 times in the head and they're still running around and you're like
okay that one's a little unrealistic.
But then there's other times they get shot in the
pinky toe and they're dead. And you're like
well there's probably a happy medium
somewhere.
But to be able to take
a spear and just jab guys
800 times.
Here's my challenge.
Just take a 25 pound weight
and do 800 reps
for me.
Good luck.
I don't care how strong you are.
You know even the strongest guys in our church, Nick Conley
or Brother West, I'm sure they could do a lot.
They couldn't do 800.
I don't believe it. There's no way.
25 pounds. I mean they could probably
I mean for a while it would feel like nothing probably.
I mean they'd sit here and they'd do it.
But then eventually even then they'd get to a point where
they couldn't do it.
It's just not humanly possible.
So obviously the spirit of God is probably coming
upon these men when they're in these battle scenes
and they're winning the fight. You know a lot of us are thinking
like man I wish I could go back then.
But here's the thing. You wouldn't be able to win that battle
unless the spirit of God came upon you.
And even today
in the spiritual fight we live in today
you cannot win the battle unless the spirit of God
is coming upon you. We're not physically
strong enough to win these battles.
But you know what I
like about a dino
and I think all these men
illustrate some different points.
He illustrates
that in order to do a big
work for God you also
have to do the work.
And what I mean by that is no one does a big
work for God
by just sitting and waiting around
for God to do something with him.
You know if you want to do a big work
for God you have to do two things. Number one you have to
have faith because the Bible says without faith it's impossible
to please him. And all these men were
men of faith. But secondly you have
to have a big vision. You know in order to
kill 800 people you have to try
to kill 800 people.
You know after like 50 you could have just
thought like you know what I feel done for a day.
I feel like I've got enough.
Like you know. But to
just keep going. That means
this guy was willing you know hey
one down, two down, three down.
I just wonder who was counting.
I don't even know. To me
the count was probably even had to be
inspired by God because he was able to even count
all those. How did you even know
that a dino did it? You know that's
kind of amazing that he was able to kill
800 men.
It's
it's an astounding number but
you know in order to have a big victory
it's just one person at a time.
And yet you still have to have
a big vision. And I believe that God wants us
today in 2022
to have a big
vision for God.
To not just say you know what
let's just let's just see if
we can reach one person.
You know let's see if we get one person saved this year.
Like there's some churches
out there. That's their vision.
Like let's get a couple people saved this year.
Or you know they'll sing the song just
for that one soul. And I'm thinking
like how many people are you sending to
hell by not having a bigger vision?
You know we shouldn't you know when we go to Matamoros
our vision is not to get one person
saved. I would be disappointed
if we go to Matamoros and one person
got saved. You know why? Because I know
that we didn't do the work that we are capable
of doing. Now of course I can't
on my own save anybody but we understand
through the Lord Jesus Christ we can accomplish a big work.
And so we should have a big
vision when we want to serve God.
If you want to slay 800 giants spiritually
you have to be willing
to put yourself out there and try.
You say well I don't I don't think I can slay 800.
Well by never going out soul winning
you never will.
What if you said
I want to get 800 people saved
in one year. Well you know you're not
going to do it by never going soul winning.
I knew somebody at Favourite Ward though he went
soul winning every day of the
of the week. Like for a whole
year and he got like 700-800 people saved
in one year. So
you know that's an amazing number. I can't
remember the exact total he got to. I think
but here's the thing you know how he got there
he said I want to get 365 people
saved. That's what he thought.
But then he ended up getting like
700 or 900 people saved
because he got that number
like halfway through the year. You know what
the only way he got there is he said I'm going to drag
myself out soul winning. And he said the only
reason I even made this goal
is because I knew it would force me to go soul winning
more than I would normally. Because
he would say like I would be unknown with work and I don't want to go soul winning
but it's like I have to otherwise I'm going to get
behind on my numbers. So then he'd say just drag
himself out there but then when he's out there he's just like
one, two, three.
He's just like hey I got the spear in my hand
might as well slay some enemies.
And you know
I'll be honest there's lots of times I drag myself
out soul winning. Not every time
but sometimes you just kind of drag yourself out there.
But you know when somebody's actually interested
it's just like all of a sudden just all the juices
start flowing and it's like you want to be there
now and you're ready to use that spear.
And you know what if you want to have a
big you want to slay a lot of people
you got to get a big vision. Verse 9
and after
him was Eliezer the son of Dodo the Hohite
one of the three mighty men with David
when they defied the Philistines that were there
together or there gathered
together to battle and the men of Israel were gone away.
He arose and smote the Philistines
until his hand was weary and his hand clave under the sword
and the Lord brought a great victory that day.
And the people returned after
him only to spoil.
So notice again this guy wins
but he was tired. But
then it says he claved to the sword
but I like how it works it says but then the Lord
brought a great victory. You know what that
makes me think? It makes me think this guy couldn't really do
it but somehow God just helped him.
You know he's just like I'm just going to barely hang on to this sword
and then the sword is going to just do all the work for me.
And you know what? That's
to me a picture of the Christian life. You're going to
get faint in the Christian life. But as
long as you just cling to this
God can can wrought
a great victory through you. You know
like that motivates
me. You know why it motivates
me? Because there are days where
I feel really tired.
And I'm like I can't do
anything. But you know what I think this is what God's
telling us is he's saying you don't
have to be strong
but just hang on.
Just hang on. Just hang on to the
Bible. Just read the Bible again
today. Just pray again
today. Just show up at church
again. And you know what? Eventually
God will just wrought a great victory. And you know what's so amazing
about this victory is
that when you look at the end of it
and here in verse number
what verse
are we in? Eleven, yeah.
Sorry
ten, yes. And the people
returned after him only
to spoil.
Meaning that he
won the whole battle. No
one else even had to fight. All
of them got to reap all of his benefits.
You know I think that our church
could be in a season
where we just kind of have to hang on
but once we hang on
God will wrought us such a great victory
that there's going to be a ton of people
that are going to just get to reap all the
spoil of our fight.
You know, wouldn't that be cool
to just see, and again you say
well that's not fair. Why do they have to fight?
Well who cares, you know?
But I think it's cool
that you win a battle so much by yourself
that just then all these other people just
get to ride on your coat and they're just like sweet, we're just here
because of the party. We're just here
to pick up all the spoil. But you know what?
That's like the great harvest that comes
from all this work. You know when you
cling to the Bible and you cling to the sword
and then God just gives
you a great victory and just destroys all your
enemies, well now all of a sudden
lots of people are interested in
fellowshipping with you. You know and I think
this ends with our church.
I personally believe that our enemies are holding
back a flood harvest
for our church. And if God ever
decided, and I don't know if he will or not,
but if God ever decided to just destroy
our enemies and just give us some peace
our church would just be flooded
with people to the spoil.
Where they would be like, wow I love this church.
You know I was standing there with you
from home in my closet
you know watching with one eye
you know like this. But now
that it's safe I'm here. You know and of
course when the next battle comes they'll run away again.
But you know it's just like there's all
these other people that could potentially still
serve God a little bit better in their lives or could
reap from the spoils of
our labor and that's okay with me.
I'm fine with that. You know what
of all the people in this story I would rather
be the guy that was tired
and has hand-cleaved the sword and the people that came
after and just got the spoil.
But you know what no one
would have gotten the spoil if
he had let go.
They only got the spoil
because someone was brave enough to just
hang on and just say I'm
going to trust the Lord and of course that is
the sword which is the sword of the spirit.
You know which is the word of God according to the Bible.
So we have to cling to the scripture. You know that's
what's told to Timothy
is to constantly cling
to the Bible and study the Bible.
If we keep going it says in verse 11
And after him was shame of the son
of Aggie the Harareit
and the Philistines were gathered together
into a troop where was a piece of ground full
of lentils and the people fled
from the Philistines. But he
stood in the midst of the ground and defended it
and slew the Philistines and the Lord wrought
a great victory.
And you know of course lentils
in the Bible is picturing
that which is the least
that which is the most
insignificant, the most worthless.
Why would you ever put this in a bean
in Chile? Why would you
put beans in Chile?
Those worthless
it's kind of like how it says a dead
dog or I'm sorry a live dog
is better or living dog is better than a dead lion.
It's like why does
he use a dead or a living dog because
the dogs are the worst
and the lion is the best.
So it's like lentils is like the worst
and even of beans
you know I like pinto beans
you know I like
a lot of different beans
lentils is probably got to be like one of the worst
beans. Now
I think it takes like an
excellent chef to even make lentils
palatable.
This is my personal opinion. If you like
lentils you know there's probably something wrong with you but
maybe you do.
Me and my wife bought some lentils
like I don't remember now
like seven years ago. We still have
them. So this
is my like tribulation food.
I'm like okay you know
we'll always have the lentils you know
but since we've always been in you know
our seven years of plenty you know we haven't had to go
to the lentils. You know the lentils is when
it's just like man bark
outside grasshoppers
you know the garbage kitty
the possum or lentils
and you're like I don't know but you know
we got the lentils. But
why is this in there you know why is he
defending a hill of beans
okay. Well
he's defending the hill of beans to show that
it's kind of like in Matthew
5 19 where it's
it's the guy who teaches the least
of the commandments. Where it's
like hey even the smallest
things are actually still so
important and they're
willing to die for.
Oh why do you preach Leviticus
2013 past the Shelley it's not
edifying. No no I'll die on that hill.
Hey which
Bible verse will you say you won't preach
anymore. None. I will
defend those lentils. I will
defend those Leviticus
chapters all of them. You say
hey but you know you could have all
of your Christianity but you just can't preach this one
verse. No I'll preach it.
You don't. And you know what this
guy is a great guy. It doesn't say like oh
this guy defending hill of beans was dumb or foolish
or or he was over the top
that's a little bombastic
defend some lentils huh. I mean
I understand defending the cows
I understand defending Bessie
you know and the
ribeye but lentils
you know it's like this guy cares about
I mean this guy must live in Oklahoma or something you know
defending those lentils to the death
there's nothing wrong with lentils
just don't put them in my chili okay
that's why it's also Jacob he sold
his birthright for a for a pottage of
lentils and you know
the Bible says he despised his birthright
he didn't say he entered into a
competition
you know to illustrate
how much someone hated their birthright
he said here's soup with beans
in it here's a pot
a chili with beans it wasn't even
chili didn't have the meat it was just the beans
it's like what kind of torture is this
he was saying I would rather have
that than my birthright and God's like
man did this guy despise his birthright
you know now if it was
like really good Texas chili
it wouldn't be as much despite it would have been
like he didn't like it you know
but to despise it it's like lentils
okay but we can get
a good picture here that if someone's willing to defend
lentils you know they're willing to defend
anything is the point
and you know we should be willing to defend even the
smallest matters you know the
smallest scriptures the least commandments
we should teach and do them
doing nothing by partiality
verse 13 and the three of the
30 chief went down
and came to David in the harvest
time in the cave of Adullam and the troop of the
Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim and David
was then in a hole in the
garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem and
David long said oh that one would give me
drink of the water
of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate
and the three mighty men break through the host
of the Philistines and drew out water
drew out of the well of Bethlehem
I'm sorry drew water out
of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate
and took it and brought it to David nevertheless
he would not drink thereof but poured it out
unto the Lord and he said be it far from me
oh Lord that I should do this is not
this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy
of their lives therefore he would not drink
it these things did these three
mighty men so
David kind of has a different
unique system where he kind of has like
groups of three that are kind of like his chiefs
and it's talking about
three of his chiefs they
just hear him talking and David's just
talking just kind of just
expressing his desires he's not he's not
ordering them he's just saying man I wish
I could just have a drink from that well
and they're like your
wish is our command you know
that phrase has got to come
from this passage
because you know what that actually
means is it means that when your boss just wants
something to happen to you
it's like something that has to happen
that's what that even means your wish
is my command not
your command is my command even your
wishes are my command you know
that's the kind of attitude that would be nice
if Christians had about Christianity
that they you know some people they always want
to come to me like where's the line
where's the commandment line and it's like
where's God's wish
instead of wondering where God's
command is where's God's
wish for your life not God's
just must do it's like
I must not lie
how about preach the gospel isn't that pretty far
away from lying I mean
it's like what's God's wish for my life it's not
just not to lie it's to make
myself a ambassador
of Christ it's for me to open my mouth
boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel
that's his wish and now therefore that's my
command you know to preach the gospel
every creature that's my command
for me to live godly in Christ Jesus
that's you know of course obviously God commands
us to do a lot of these things but God's not
going to force you to do anything he gives you that
free will but we should look at our
lives as an opportunity to
make God's wishes our commands
in our lives
I think there's also another picture that's different
and it's kind of interesting
but why did David not drink
this now number one
I believe he didn't drink this for a carnal
reason the carnal reason is he doesn't
want people to start
making really dumb rash decisions
just based on his wishes
and wins okay because
he these men could have literally died
just to have a drink from a well
I mean that's kind of an extreme
thought like you don't lose
your best men just to get a drink
of water
but if David had drank the
water what would he have done he would have basically
said you know what that was a good idea
do that again next time
but David's realizing like this is not a good
idea like you should that was foolish
that was over the top guys okay
so that's a carnal reason
I think there's another spiritual picture here
think about
John chapter four
and Jesus is at the well and
there's the woman at the well and she wants to she wants
you know they're talking about taking a drink
from this well and he
was telling her like if you know who I am
you would ask of me and I would give thee
that living water now
when David is given a drink
think about this he was
thirsty and we kind of think
about the picture of salvation all
men are thirsty in the context
of salvation in the sense that
we all are in desire in
need of something we're all in need
of salvation that's what it means to be thirsty
symbolically in the scripture
now there's two
ways that people solve this
number one would be through human effort
which would be a works based salvation
what is it that these men
offer to David? it's a works
based drink
because think about the effort and the
energy and it's their
blood I mean it's just everything
that they could possibly do they offer
him this and he pours it out and
refuses to drink their works
based drink
and the drink offering is refused
you know and the poor offering in the Bible
was often to signify
Jesus Christ's blood being poured
out and shed for us
and how what he did
is a picture of sacrifice
and giving us salvation so I believe
that him refusing their drink
and pouring it out is a
picture of him rejecting works salvation
and picturing
the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ
so that's kind of how
I view this story
it says in verse number 18
the Abishai the brother of Joab the son of
Ziraiya was chief among three
and he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew
them and had the name among three
was he not most honorable of three
therefore he was their captain how be it
he attained not under the first three
verse 19 is good was he not
most honorable of the three
so it's also saying like you know
David did not put people in positions
of authority based on
anything other than who deserved it
we shouldn't use favorites
we shouldn't pick people based on who we
like or they're related to us
or some nepotistic type
viewpoint it should be strictly based
on merit and you know
that is the best way to have a system
verse 20 and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada the son of a valiant man
of Kabziel had done many acts
he slew two lion like men of Moab
he went down also and slew a lion
in the midst of a pit in time of snow
and he slew in a giant
a goodly man and the Egyptian had a spear
in his hand but he went down to him
with a staff and plucked the spear out of the
Egyptian's hand and slew him with his own spear
these things that Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
and had the name among
three mighty men he was more honorable
than the 30 but he attained not
to the first three and David set him
over his guard so Benaiah
is kind of like David's personal security guard
and he's really good at just destroying people
I like how he takes the spear out of one guy
and uses it to kill him this to me is like
when you take one of these fake preachers
they're preaching and use it against them
to show them how they're a loser
it's like I can take the Calvinist verses
and prove how Calvin is wrong
you know it's like that's how awesome
this guy is you know a man of faith
and you know what these men
are great men of faith and the works
that they're doing are
are great works humanly speaking
and I think it's also illustrated that God wants us
to do great human exploits
but through the faith of Jesus
you know
God doesn't want us to do something small
God wants us to do something big
and I believe it's even quantifiable
in the sense that you can see it in the world
you know getting a bunch of people saved
like a big number of people saved
that's something that we can see and tangibly measure
you know God wants things like that
God wants us to get a lot of people saved
God wants us to build a church
God wants us to go out and
destroy false doctrine
you know I think there's all kinds of cool things
God wants more King James Bibles to be published
God wants more Spanish
New Testaments to be published
and to be read
God wants more baptisms to be done
God wants more chapters
of the Bible to be read
and more verses to be memorized
and for mere people to get saved
and you know what I'm all four numbers
you know we have a baptism competition
but you know what it's for a reason
we're trying to inspire people to do more
to have a big vision
and to be excited to serve God
with their lives
and you know another thing
that's interesting about this list
I'm not going to read all the names
but look at the very end
verse 37
Zelik the Ammonite
now I read that name for this reason
there's a lot of names in here
we don't know exactly who they all are
but it almost seems like almost every single one of these guys
is like a Gentile
have you ever kind of noticed that?
even of the children of Israel
it's not like so-and-so the Benjamite
so-and-so the Issacharite
or so-and-so the Levite
it's like
all these random people that you've never even heard of
you know the Herodite
and the Tekoaite
and the Anathothite
I mean even the main guys
a dino, the Esnite
Esnite's only found in the scripture one time
who is that? I don't know
but you know what it makes me think
of all of David's mighty men
in this time we're like all
basically
ex-Philistines
and ex-Cananites
it kind of shows that
God was going to use those that had faith
more than those that were born into the family
and you know what? God can use a lot
of first generation Christians
and God's going to use the New Testament
church to do great works and they
were the greatest
the greatest were not all these Levites
and the Ezekielites and Benjamites
they were a bunch of randos
why? because you know what?
God has always been a God of faith
and those who have great faith in his
name are really the ones that he uses the greatest
not just
I wasn't born in the right family
what family was a dino born into?
you know that's kind of
a silly idea that you're limited based
on who your parents are
no, no, you're limited by the faith you
have in your heart
God wants us to do a big work for him
if we can get a big faith
I believe that steadfast Baptist church
might be filled with a bunch of
Ezerites and Tikoites
and whatever, you know what?
they could be David's
mighty men and that David is the Lord
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ's mighty men
but I hope that you get a big vision
and realize that there is a battle that's raging
why don't we be
you know
the men that clave to the sword
and allow everybody else to
reap the spoil
let's close in prayer
thank you Heavenly Father for giving us this
chapter and giving us the victory
I realize that
we can't do anything on our own
and I pray that we would
have a big faith and a big trust
in your might and your power
but we would come alongside
your might and your power and have a big vision
and that we realize that we have to also
go out there and we have to do the physical work
and we have to do the physical labor
and come alongside the word of God
I pray that we would
not grow weary
and lose grip of the sword
but rather we would stay strong
through your power, your might
and we would cleave to the word of God
and we would allow you to
write a great victory
in Jesus' name we pray, Amen
for our final song this evening
we'll go to 114
the great physician
114 the great physician
song 114
the great physician
now is near
the sympathizing
Jesus
he speaks the drooping
heart to cheer
oh hear the voice of
Jesus
sweetest note in
seraph song
sweetest name on mortal
tongue sweetest
carol ever
sung Jesus
blessed Jesus
your many sins
are all forgiven
oh hear the voice
of Jesus
go on your way
in peace to heaven
and wear a crown with
Jesus
sweetest note in
seraph song
sweetest name on mortal
tongue sweetest
carol ever
sung Jesus
blessed Jesus
all glory to
the dying lamb
I now believe
in Jesus
I love the blessed
Savior's name
I love the name of
Jesus
sweetest note in
seraph song sweetest
name on mortal
tongue sweetest
carol ever